Idea #7644: New way to display downloading files

Written by Wiplash4 the 26 Apr 08 at 08:12. Category: Accessibility.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

Description

Till now Firefox (and others) create 2 icons when files are downloaded: The file itself and a .part file
Please change that to one icon.
My idea: Create a new icon with a progressbar inside. THe original icons appears, when the download is complete.

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Eldmannen wrote on the 26 Apr 08 at 16:05

Are you confusing icons with files?

wearzeep wrote on the 27 Apr 08 at 01:24

Yeah, I wonder the same thing as Eldmannen, and the part file is some core stuff in Firefox I guess, so thats probably not gonna change.
I do agree that it looks ugly, and what either Ubuntu or Mozilla could do is to store the temp .part files somewhere else, like ~/.firefox, or to at least make it a hidden file or something.
But really, it isn't something crucial.

frandavid100 wrote on the 27 Apr 08 at 07:26

Agreed. This also has an additional disadvantage: for some reason, files downloaded with firefox don't display a thumbnail until they're renamed.

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